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/ 2 November 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced online versions of its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google and other fast-moving challengers. With Windows Live, Microsoft hopes to create a new platform that will unfasten some of its applications from a computer hard drive.
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/ 2 November 2005
The JSE was in positive territory just before midday on Wednesday in brisk, order-driven trade. Firmer European markets and the rand coming off the morning’s best levels also provided support. By 11.52am, the all-share index added 0,38%. Industrials jumped 0,94%, financials firmed 0,45% and the banks index was 0,91% better.
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/ 2 November 2005
Customers stopping to gaze at the store window may soon be less anonymous than they think — the store will instantly know their age and gender. Japanese bikemaker Yamaha Motor has unveiled a camera system that recognises if a person is a man or woman and puts them into one of five age groups.
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/ 2 November 2005
The largest rebel group in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region appeared set to split on Wednesday, as its more militant wing readied to elect new leaders at a meeting boycotted by the incumbent president. ”There will be an election for new leaders,” said Mahjub Hussein, a London-based spokesperson for the Sudan Liberation Movement.
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/ 2 November 2005
A 16-year-old Japanese girl was arrested for trying to kill her mother with rat poison and keeping an internet blog narrating how her condition deteriorated, news reports said on Wednesday. The girl, part of an elite high school chemistry club, reportedly admired British serial killer Graham Young and kept severed animal body parts including a cat’s head in her bedroom.
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/ 2 November 2005
Nearly two-thirds of Russians questioned in a new poll do not believe that business can be both honest and profitable, the Romir monitoring company reported. About 59% of the poll’s 1 600 respondents said it was impossible to profit from a business if one paid all the proper taxes and gave out no bribes, researchers said, adding that in large cities the percentage of sceptics rose to 64%.
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/ 2 November 2005
Captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul put on a brave face on Wednesday as he confronted the task his West Indies team have of beating Australia in a cricket series here for the first time in 12 years. The West Indies are the last touring team to have vanquished Australia on their home wickets when Richie Richardson’s tourists won the five-Test series 2-1 in 1992-1993.
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/ 2 November 2005
Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday in a car bomb blast that Islamic militants said was a "gift" to Indian Kashmir’s incoming chief minister. Police said the explosion took place in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.
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/ 2 November 2005
The Australian government has received specific information about a terrorist threat on its soil and will rush an urgent amendment to anti-terrorism laws through Parliament to help counter it, Prime Minister John Howard said on Wednesday. He refused to give any details about the information.
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/ 2 November 2005
Riot police fired at protesters for a second day in Ethiopia’s capital on Wednesday, a day after eight people were killed and 43 wounded in renewed protests against disputed elections, human rights officials said. Clashes broke out early on Wednesday when police took action to disperse stone-throwing opposition supporters.